Peggy Lowe
Peggy Lowe joined Harvest Public Media in 2011, returning to the Midwest after 22 years as a journalist in Denver and Southern California. Most recently she was at The Orange County Register, where she was a multimedia producer and writer. In Denver she worked for The Associated Press, The Denver Post and the late, great Rocky Mountain News. She was on the Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Columbine. Peggy was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2008-09. She is from O'Neill, the Irish Capital of Nebraska, and now lives in Kansas City. Based at KCUR, Peggy is the analyst for The Harvest Network and often reports for Harvest Public Media.
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The National Registry of Exonerations says 153 innocent people were freed last year. A new report credits an increase on innocence organizations and conviction integrity units working on cases.
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A Kansas family remembers Valentine's Day as the start of panic attacks, life-altering trauma and waking to nightmares of gunfire. They wonder how they'll recover from the Kansas City parade shooting.
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In an unusually fast response from federal authorities, the men were not charged with shooting the weapons, but rather with trafficking, illegal sales and lying to federal agents.
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In 2023, Missouri executed four people, making it one of just five states to use the death penalty — and another execution has been set for this year.
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The decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds an earlier decision that attempts to fix what critics called a “procedural vortex” that unfairly kept people in prison with confusing documents, unfair hearings and petty interpretations of violations.
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Lester, an 84-year-old white man who lives in Kansas City’s Northland, was charged with two felonies for shooting Ralph Yarl on the night of April 13, after the Black teen mistakenly arrived at the wrong address.
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The attorney for Andrew D. Lester says the 84-year-old has been threatened, harassed and called a racist since the Black teen's shooting made national headlines, and is asking the case be sealed so Lester can have a fair trial.
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Prosecutors in Clay County, Mo., say an 84-year-old Kansas City man is charged with two felonies for shooting Black teenager Ralph Yarl, who knocked on his door after going to the wrong address.
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Black Lives Matter activists who rejected Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith's invitation to meet say they refuse to be a part of law enforcement's "performative politics."
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Rose Calvin’s family has wondered about her murder for 24 years – and they have questions about the role of a former Kansas City, Kansas, Police detective in her death. So do social justice advocates.